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William Le Baron Jenney, the architect who constructed the world's first iron-and-steel-framed building in the 1880s, set up shop in Chicago, training a crop of architects that pushed the city skyward through internal frames.
BBC: The infamous architecture of Chicago
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EU. For him, the Union is fundamentally an old-world structure originating in old industries (coal, iron, steel and food) and old ideas involving huge regulatory institutions.
ECONOMIST: Europe and America
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The World Steel Association, a steelmakers' group, predicted early this month that the iron-ore market should stay balanced this year before moving into progressive surplus between 2014 and 2017 as new mine capacity comes on stream.
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